" CHAPTER XXIX Miss A. Milligan stood before the door of her select dressmaking parlours, meditatively picking her teeth with a needle.

"They won't, sir; they'll listen to no man when it comes to dressmaking.

"Dressmaking is a nuisance," remarked Beth, placidly; "but it's the penalty we pay for being women.

" "That's as people think," said Mary pertly, for she remembered that the very morning before, when on her way to her dressmaking work, she had met Mr. Harry Carson, who had sighed, and sworn and protested all manner of tender vows.

" "That is because her dressmaker is in a situation to dictate her own terms; but while she would pay her a large sum for dressmaking, she would screw and pinch a five-cent piece from one who hadn't power to resist her demands.

She does not read the dressmaking periodicals.

And as these thoughts were passing through his mind, he remembered hearing his mother say that Annie's sister was thinking of starting dressmaking in the High Street.

"Instruct in domestic arts, dressmaking, millinery, cooking, decoration, and, through the Samaritan Hospital, in the art of nursing.

There are normal courses for kindergarteners and elementary teachers, and in household science, physical training, music, millinery, dressmaking, elocution and oratory.

Special courses are given in civil engineering, chemistry, elocution and oratory, painting and drawing, sign writing, mechanical and architectural drawing, music, physical training, dressmaking, millinery, cooking, embroidery, and nursing, the last being given at the Samaritan Hospital.

She took the normal course in dressmaking and millinery, and has this year been appointed the Director of the Domestic Science work in a large institution at a very good salary, being able to keep herself and family in comfort.

Then with stern orders to hold his head still the rite was consummated with a pair of shears commandeered from plain and fancy dressmaking.

Mrs. Penniman had at last been fancy in her dressmaking for her child, and now stood by to exclaim at her handiwork.

SEE Dressmaking and Sewing Dictionary.

Vogue's book of smart dressmaking. Rev. ed.

DRESSMAKING AND SEWING DICTIONARY. Appl.

Ogden Nash (A); 18Nov69; R473265. NAST (CONDE) PUBLICATIONS, INC. Vogue's book of smart dressmaking.

Mrs. Flint was a rather frumpish individual, who always gave the impression of pieced-out dressmaking.

It has been found in our towns, generally, that men and women who are engaged in industrial callings, such as tailoring, shoe-making, dressmaking, lace-work and the like, work at their own homes amongst their children.

She was taught drawing by her father, who, perceiving that she had unusual talent, permitted her to give up dressmaking, to which, much against her will, she had been apprenticed.

"She went into a dressmaking shop as soon as she left schoolI had taught her to sew beautifullythinking she could earn money enough when she had learned her trade to have a term in an art school.

A woman cannot work at dressmaking, tailoring, or any other sedentary employment, ten hours a day, year in and out, without enfeebling her constitution, impairing her eyesight, and bringing on a complication of complaints; but she can sweep, cook, wash, and do the duties of a well-ordered house, with modern arrangements, and grow healthier every year.

The widow's talent for dressmaking (she had been a milliner's apprentice before marriage), though of a high order, and exerted to the utmost, failed to please.

They're only samples o' dressmaking and jewelry that a vain, conceited shrimp of a feller up in Sacramento sends down here to get customers for.

We recommend as of primary importance, in order to be well and economically dressed, that people of slender means should have their dresses made at home, and should secure the services of a clever needle-woman who knows how to cut out and make, and has learned the mysteries of the art of dressmaking.